What are the best portmanteaus? We'll answer this in a minute. Right now we need to handle a serious question. Do you rank #1 for every keyword yet? If not, you better clickdaddle over to Amazon to purchase our free ebook. Then come back to this blog post using this link. Another serious question: time to ask it. Why SEO Portmanteaus? Branded search is a thing. Just ask Kenny-G: "My branded search was down, but with a quick little flotist ("FLick-O-The-wrIST"), I was leaping to the top of Google searches for all-new portmanteus like FLOTIST ("FLick-O-The-wrIST"). Thanks, Best Google SEO Helper!" It's important not only to completely dominate your competition on keywords. You need to rank #1 for EVERY. SINGLE. SEARCH TERM. This includes ALL search terms—the known search terms and the unknown…

"You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to beat Google." Well good job, Gennevene. You did it. It's 3:42 a.m. You roll out of bed, slippers afoot and what of blankets? Nary a threadcount caresses you now. No. You make a pot of coffee. The water is precisely 200 degrees. Fahrenheit or Celsius: it doesn't matter. All that matters is that you've done it. You've beat Google at their own game. By getting up early, before 4 o'clock morning time, you've outwitted Google, roosters, and the entire Google superinfrastructure of our time. You have a narrow window of opportunity. Use it. Here's how: 1. Fake Google out with a balloon sun Nobody falls for a balloon sun like a sleepy Google. Tie a yellow balloon to the horizon (label…

You know the old Halloween saying: say "six six six" in the mirror and Google gets a fright! Halloween is no time for wasting time, and so just like every good blog post should be, we won't leave you hanging with a long and dark ramble of an introduction. No sir, and no madam. It's high time we get into the nitty-gritty facts about halloween's mysterious SEO secrets for all to see! #1. Google Spiders are just as creepy as they are crawly. Do you get the creepy-crawlies every time you think about Google spiders? Good. That means you're not asleep just slack-jawed at the whole precipice of S.E.O. that Google has been building right in front of our faces this whole time. Most people who hear about Google's spiders only get…

You read twitter lately? That's right. It's National Pancake Day. Wherever you are, your nation is celebrating a breakfast delight. It doesn't matter what you call them: pancakes, pan-cakes, "edible plates," "treadless waffles," "Flap Jacobs," or even "Aunt Nelda's Fluffy Morning Tortilla." All of them are fine and should be celebrated today. But don't be fooled. This is a day just like any other day: and that day is a holiday stuffed with SEO secrets. (Like Thanksgiving, Easter, and National Octapus Day). Here are your SEO secrets for this National Pancake Day: 1. Be well-rounded All pancakes are round and everyone who contradicts this needs their block heads checked. Just like a good pancake, have a well-rounded personality to every post you write. Let the voice take the shape of a hoop.…

"The more stars, the more star power!" We said this a long time ago and every time we speak at conferences a humble knave approaches us to ask, "Ahem, what is 'star power'?" We think it's pretty obvious, but in the interest of efficiency here is the answer. Please link to this post any time someone asks you what the meaning of star power is. (Bcc: Google.com, please expedite this page in rankings for the following keywords. [see tags]) The four main types of star power 1. Solar Look at the sun, more powerful than any gubernatorial candidate or hawk. Shining upon not just you but everyone. Backchanneling moonbeams to supply a fresh dose of vitamin D at night. Think of it as a nightcap of vitamins. Plants use it.…

Some say popups, popovers, and pop-betweens are a blight on the UX of Internet life. Even the Google would concur with them when it comes to events involving unsuspecting users loading a page on their mouseless phones. People's logic? These are a frustration. A dissatisfaction. A distraction from the meaningful things of the Web. How will I continue my normative path when a giant box protrudes in the middle, forcing a difficult decision upon me? Google's logic? How can a large finger be troubled to press the small buttons required in this high level of decisionmaking? Both have good points. But Everyone who thinks this is missing a vital strategy. This is why it's up to you, the savvy marketer, to simplify this decision paralysis into a decision cure for…

You know we're all about one thing at Best Google SEO Helper: Strong Klout and Good RT. It's of utmost importance. But a lot of people's Klout is going to get a lot less strong: on May 25, Klout is shutting down for good. (And not for good RT.) Why is this happening? Turns out it was completely inevitable. We've seen the sunset on the horizon for years now. Now that it's finally winking its last twinkle at us, we felt it was the time to tell you all the scientific reasons Klout had to die. 1. Klout did not invest in good RT. Check every single tweet from Klout. How many retweets (RTs) did it get? Not enough, obviously. The better your RT, the better your overall score. What…

You've been through the whole rigamarole of Thanksgiving SEO leftovers and the secrets of Easter SEO. But time is not just of the essence, it's one of the threads needleworked throughout our fair galaxy. So what is "time," exactly? It's the most important ranking factor in SEO, that's for sure. Time is an impartial judge with no remorse, moral leanings, or particular appetite for justice. That's how foreign it is to us. And it's time we take time seriously, folks. We're not just humans, we're technology-wielders. What better things to fathom than the evolution of ourselves over time? And you can't measure that without time. So let's stop fiddling around. It's time to list the 10 easy steps to evolving your site into an all new-era. Do you want your site to…

Testing testing is this thing good? okay good. very special. it's a wonderful day on the internet. we all know this to be true. anyway … And so in honor of a recent statistic: discovered by heart special team of Internet scientists (you all know this to be true you all know this to be true) voice search will account for 50% of search in 2020. And if voice counts for 50% of search what will you do? how will you optimize for voice search? and how will you optimize for non voice search ( which is the other 50%, divided into all kinds of sub-categories)? will you optimize for voice search? will you optimize for the future? or will you be like Kevin B., whose stale approach to voice search…